• half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    NYC stood out to me too. We think 3 out of 10 people in the US live in NYC??? Lmaooo. I think a big part of it is that we just generally don’t comprehend statistics because some of these numbers are wild.

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      How many of these questions had you really, truly considered before?

      I speculate that most Americans just don’t think about these things that in depth and, when asked, throw out a number without giving due consideration.

      Don’t attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by laziness